Informatik Handwerk
Peter Fargaš
Programmer :: Prototyping, Research
PHP | JavaScript | Java
Informatik Handwerk
Peter Fargaš
Programmer :: Prototyping, Research
PHP | JavaScript | Java
Informatik Handwerk
Peter Fargaš | Programmer :: Prototyping, Research | PHP,JavaScript,Java
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Knowledge About Portfolio
Release date: July 2013
Link to authoritative version https://knowledge-transfer.informatik-handwerk.de
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Usage Scenarios of Applications

Execution Environments
Usage Scenarios of Applications

Each execution environment possesses it's own speciallities. I did not go on explorations into this domain from that direction?, rather the oposite as I was facing problems of the existing ones, problems of fundamental nature very complicated to overcome. This document is the result of that effort. The second paragraph speaks of the requirements, the final about the family of sollutions and their implications — whereas the first introduces the traditional models.
The complexity of this concept's implementation, from ground up, is trivial.
I marked a couple of spots with ? - in case you like to puzzle a bit around or confirm yourself some of the more interesting turningpoints. Enjoy,
   -Peter Fargaš

Models in wide use

  • standalone applications
  • portable applications
  • web aplications
Their usage domains are rather well known, on the properties is pondered seldomly since applications are built within those properties — instead of defining a sensefull set of them and searching for a suitable model from there?. As a simple example, I'll just mention the problem of identitiy, which is either ignored(as not relevant) or solved via login mechanism — and that is a very poor representation of a spectrum they both fit into. Only for the record: a spectrum which is bound together with some kind of privacy-spectrum (and more)?.

Sollution

Within the current technology offer, the best variant I found is a portable application with embedded browser - based on java technology for example, offered in various native machine codes and as bytecode.
This type of application model can be used in three different ways:
  • On devices which allows to execute portable applications, (a more powerfull model can unfold but most of all,) the portable wrapper can brigde filesystem write-access, a function which is crypled in a traditional browser setting.
    In online-mode, Identification of the user is the (unique) application-copy and state-hash of locally stored data. As the data evolves, in case of highjacking, the split can be detected and thus worked against (by proofing geo-synchronicity with other personal devices for example).
  • Running a weaker application model is a matter of having a browser to run theembedded web-application localy. Filesystem data can be read.
    Storage of data locally can be done via manual export - yet reading is available an thus the proofing of identity via most-recent-hash for online-scenario is available.
  • The third, most opened variant, is to access the application from an online location, just like a traditional web-application, a variant where user uses one of the available login mechanisms.
Data synchronization mechanism for online backup/availabilty can be offered for public-transferable data.
The cost of developing application for such environment setting is minimal, since the core is the very same webserver-browser client application in all three variants. The embedding portable application is common. The way of usage is determined by the surrounding in which user is situated, resp. by the way (s)he decides to use the application.

Technologies as of 2013

  • Java w/ DJ Swing
  • HTML, JavaScript
  • Webserver
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